Thought this would be cool addition to spice up puppy fun even more
I used one of those image to ascii convertors from web and saved puppy ascii logo to text file. You can put it anywhere, lets say you have it in /usr/share/doc/asciipup.txt

Add line to /root/.bashrc to read that file on startup:

Code:

cat /usr/share/doc/asciipup.txt

Now every time you run console puppy logo will apear

Here I attach the ascii txt file and screenshot, post your ascii art and examples for beautifying and customizing terminal here, like .Xdefaults for different terminals and stuff, look at this post in dpup thread what I did for urxvt to move scrollbar to right and invert fg/bg
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=454271#454271

here is how i configured the prompt in /etc/profile. Find the PS1="# " line and comment it out with a # at the beginning, then create a new one below it:
the "36" determines the color and ">" is the character displayed

PS1=\`pwd\`'\[\033[1;36m\]>\[\033[0m\]'

the pwd above is the linux command for "print working directory"
just replace the "36" above with one of these numbers for a different color for the ">":

Black 30
Blue 34
Green 32
Cyan 36
Red 31
Purple 35
Yellow 33
White 37

here is a new one where the current working directory will be diplayed in red and the symbol displayed will be "=>" in cyan. \w is used here instead of the pwd command to display current working directory.

After some trial and error and some ideas from archwiki page, i got the Xdefaults to work- with some odd changes though: had to change all "URxvt" to "urxvt" and change some "*" to "." --see code.

Before i just used command line options stored in pinboard (right click console icon, edit item, Arguments to pass.) For example:
-tr -fg white -tint gray -sh 80 -fn "xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:antialias=true:pixelsize=14"
and then add this to end when useing xcompmgr:
-depth 32 -bg rgba:0000/0000/0000/4444
These days, urxvt seems to need an actual .ttf font to work properly with the xft, though. But VeraMono.ttf is only 49k.

my .Xdefaults - don't try this at home.....
this is with the standard small urxvt (138k) included with woof built pups
! is a comment marker in the .Xdefaults so lines beginning with ! are inactive.

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Here is an attatchment of my setup for MRXVT,
this seemingly sidesteps the problem with the *@euro locale, however, i don't know how this plays out on systems where nimbus mono L is the only available monospace xft font.

MRXVT_options.jpg

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Last edited by upnorth on Fri 26 Nov 2010, 22:58; edited 3 times in total

Hello...
I found a nice ASCII Processing sketch online and make a few -littles- changes on it...
For make an ASCII image, replace the JPG inside the folder for another of your choice and resize the pixel proportions of the sketch according to the pixel size of your file (that's the easy way).
Hope you like it.

//PROCESSING CODE HERE-->

Code:

//picture to ascii generator by Chris Webb
//do whatever you want with this. im sure you can improve it heaps :D

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